Guardian [U.K.],
by
Matthew Cantor
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/5/2022 10:08:47 PM
Post Reply
A small-town library is at risk of shutting down after residents of Jamestown, Michigan, voted to defund it rather than tolerate certain LGBTQ+-themed books. Residents voted on Tuesday to block a renewal of funds tied to property taxes, Bridge Michigan reported. The vote leaves the library with funds through the first quarter of next year. Once a reserve fund is used up, it would be forced to close, Larry Walton, the library board’s president, told Bridge Michigan–harming not just readers but the community at large.(Snip)Residents ultimately voted 62% to 37% against a measure that would have raised property taxes by roughly $24 in order to
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Josh Boswell
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/5/2022 7:39:08 PM
Post Reply
Two Chinese businessmen with ties to Hunter Biden's company met with Joe Biden at the White House and followed up with the VP's son days later with a fawning email and invitation, records reveal.
The meeting is the fifteenth to be uncovered between Joe and businessmen linked to Hunter. Executives for Chinese energy company Wanxiang secured a meeting with the vice president in the West Wing in July 2014 with just one day's notice, according to White House visitor logs.(Snip)Despite this and other damning evidence revealed by DailyMail.com about the president's relationship with Hunter's business partners, Joe and his spokespeople still claim that he never discussed his son's overseas
Breitbart National Security,
by
Frances Martel
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/5/2022 7:18:02 PM
Post Reply
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the South China Morning Post on Thursday that he would like to discuss his country’s war against Russia with the leader of Russia’s closest ally, Xi Jinping, “directly,” and invited China to help rebuild Ukraine once the war is over. Zelensky’s discussion with the Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper, was the first with an Asian news outlet since Russia escalated its eight-year-old war against Ukraine into a full-scale invasion in February.(Snip)Ukraine is a member of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global program to trap poor countries in predatory loans to China that they cannot afford.
Washington Times,
by
Brad Matthews
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/5/2022 6:55:53 PM
Post Reply
Beyond Meat’s sales have fizzled rather than sizzled after fast-food trials of its product had customers asking, “Where’s the beef?”
McDonald’s is the latest fast-food giant to complete a trial of a Beyond Meat plant-based product (the McPlant burger). JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Ken Goldman released a market research note that indicated the product was being broadly discontinued in the U.S. last Thursday. The two companies signed a three-year global distribution deal in 2021.(Snip)Other trials at Panda Express and Yum! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut) have also ended without a subsequent product launch. Beyond Meat products at Dunkin’, Hardee’s, and A&W
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Mansur Shaheen
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/5/2022 2:25:54 PM
Post Reply
New York officials are warning that hundreds of Empire state residents may already be infected with the devastating polio virus after it was detected in wastewater of a second county in the state.
State surveillance detected presence of the polio virus in at least two different areas of Orange County, New York—around an hours drive from New York City—in June and July. It comes within weeks of officials announcing a confirmed polio case in Rockland County—just northwest of the Big Apple's Bronx borough. The virus was also detected in Rockland wastewater last month.(Snip)Given his lack of international travel during the standard infection period
Washington Times,
by
Stephen Dinan
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/5/2022 10:04:41 AM
Post Reply
Hundreds of Afghan evacuees reached the U.S. despite appearing on a Defense Department watchlist or a crucial counterterrorism database, Republican senators charged Thursday, citing the claims of a whistleblower. Sens. Josh Hawley and Ron Johnson said they were told that 324 Afghans reached the U.S. despite appearing on the Defense Department’s Biometrically Enabled Watchlist (BEWL). In addition, 65 Afghans who made it to American soil showed up in the department’s Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)—up from 50 who were reported to have been flagged by an inspector general in February. The senators also said they were told that political appointees ordered military officers to “cut corners” on fingerprint checks
Fox News,
by
Danielle Wallace
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/4/2022 8:55:58 PM
Post Reply
The suspect facing kidnapping and murder charges in Alabama after a 12-year-old girl’s escape from a mobile home prompted the discovery of two decomposing corpses is an illegal immigrant who was deported from the United States once before, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
José Paulino Pascual-Reyes—charged with first-degree kidnapping, three counts of capital murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse in connection to the gruesome discovery—is considered a "re-entry nonimmigrant unlawful presence foreign national," Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett confirmed to Fox News Digital by phone on Thursday.(Snip)Ceja was on parole pending an asylum claim.
New York Post,
by
Mark Lungariello
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/4/2022 8:39:45 PM
Post Reply
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez was arrested Thursday in a bribery scheme in which she allegedly pushed out a high-ranking government official in exchange for more than $300,000 to help her 2020 campaign. Vázquez, 62, is accused of working out the bribes with conspirators who included a former FBI agent, a Venezuelan Italian bank owner and a political consultant, according to the Department of Justice. “Public corruption erodes the people’s trust in our institutions and fuels civil unrest,” Joseph González, special agent in charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office, said in a statement. “No one is above the law and the victim of this crime, the People
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Rob Crilly
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/4/2022 6:02:21 PM
Post Reply
Hardline Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban received a hero's welcome at a major conservative conference in Texas on Thursday, as he urged the American right to learn from his multiple election successes. He implored his audience not to pull their punches in a culture war with globalizing liberals. And he described how Hungarian state institutions defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. But he made no mention of the racism controversy that followed him to the U.S., after he promised to prevent Hungary becoming a 'mixed race' nation.(Snip)'We have to be brave enough to address even the most sensitive questions, migration, gender and the clash
Breitbart Europe,
by
Chris Tomlinson
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/4/2022 10:51:55 AM
Post Reply
A police station in the French city of Vitry-sur-Seine was attacked this week with Molotov cocktails and mortar fireworks, with police later being attacked while trying to pursue suspects. The attacks occurred early Monday morning in the Paris suburb and saw the police station attacked with mortar fireworks and a number of Molotov cocktails, with the local prosecutor’s office estimating at least fifteen fireworks being shot into the courtyard of the station. When police attempted to pursue the attackers, they were also targeted and attacked with mortar fireworks and other projectiles, broadcaster Franceinfo reports.(Snip)The incident took place just a day before another attack in the city
Daily Mail (UK),
by
James Reinl
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/4/2022 9:35:34 AM
Post Reply
America’s top child health authority is under fire for pushing the over-use of puberty-blockers and hormones on transgender youth, and for stifling debate over whether a non-drug therapy approach is better. Critics say the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is blocking efforts to review its influential policy on ‘gender-affirming care’ for teens who identify as transgender at its leadership meet, which starts in Chicago on Thursday.(Snip)The academy's advice guides the work of some 67,000 AAP-affiliated childcare specialists and the gender-affirming policies of President Joe Biden's administration. Clinicians told DailyMail.com the AAP policy was shoehorning trans-identifying teens towards life-altering drug cocktails
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Natasha Anderson
Original Article
Posted by
Ribicon
—
8/3/2022 10:37:27 PM
Post Reply
A man who posed as a federal agent and infiltrated Jill Biden's Secret Service has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and other charges.
Arian 'Ari' Taherzadeh, 40, admitted to creating a private law enforcement service called the United States Special Police and impersonating federal agents to recruit members to his fake investigative team. He also lavished gifts on Secret Service agents, including one assigned to protect the First Lady, such as rent-free luxury apartments in Washington DC, drones, iPhones and firearms.(Snip)Court records show he racked up more than $1 million in debt for unpaid rent from apartment complexes, luxury cars, VIP box seats at Capital One Arena,
Comments:
I wish we had one like him in the USA.